RADIO & TV 1949: Milton Berle's TEXACO STAR THEATER

Jack of All Turns

As the clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a
strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls
off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood
movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close
up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their
after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days
of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast
and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another...